The document provides definitions and examples for 12 words: doughty, exodus, broadside, merciless, pique, sop, flatfoot, contumacious, optimism, indenture. Doughty means valiant or fearless. Exodus refers to a mass departure or emigration. Broadside is a strongly worded attack. Merciless means showing no mercy or pity.

1. Word of the Day
 Doughty
 DOW-tee (adjective)
 Definition: Marked by fearless resolution- valiant
 Example: When little Liza saw the bullies picking on one of the
younger boys the doughty girl marched up to them and demanded
that they stop.
 Sentence: The doughty soldier has to risk his life in order to protect
his country.
 Exodus
 EK-suh-dus (noun)
 Definition: A mass departure; emigration
 Example: When the concert ended, the exodus of attendees clogged
up traffic for miles.
 Sentence: There was an exodus of ostriches running loose through out
the city, running wild because the ostrich farmer was drunk and
dumb enough to ask one of his ostriches to close the gate.
 Broadside
 Brawd-syde (noun)
 Definition: A strongly worded attack
 Example: The intern was surprised when her supervisor answered the
simple question with a broadside against the company’s treatment of
employees.
 Sentence: She broadsided her assistant with words that weren’t easily
comprehended because she refused to clean her boss’s toilet.
 Merciless
 mer-si-les (adjective)
 Definition: Having or showing no mercy or pity
 Example: The presidential candidate was merciless in his criticism of
his opponents.
 Sentence: He made the merciless decision to abandon his friend as he
jumped out of the airplane with the last parachute.

2.  Pique
 PEEK (verb)
 Definition: To arouse curiosity or interest
 Example: Our curiosity was piqued by the locked chest hidden at the
back of the old ship.
 Sentence: As he suspiciously walked out my neighbor’s house with a
heavy looking bad, it piqued my interest to wonderwhat he did in
there.
 Sop
 SAHP (noun)
 Definition: Bride, gift or gesture
 Example: The contractor offered higher price bathroom fixtures at no
extra cost as a sop to the home owner, who was threatening to cancel
the contract.
 Sentence: He tried to sop her with bundles of roses for a chance to try
and win back her love, knowing that he could be rejected he
courageously walks over to her.
 Flatfoot
 FLAT-foot (noun)
 Definition: Slang police officer, especially a patrolman walking the
beat
 Example: In his latest movie, the actor plays an earnest flatfoot who is
bested by some clever crooks.
 Sentence: The smart flatfoot out smarted the criminal that try to
disguise himself as a banker to steal money.
 Contumacious
 Kahn-too-MAY-shus (noun)
 Definition: Stubbornly disobedient rebellious.

3.  Example: She sat still looking a little contumacious and very much
indisposed a stir.
 Sentence: My friend Lee was very contumacious when I was at his
house he disagreed to unbutton a button on his shirt when his dad
told him to.
 Optimism
 AWP-tih-miz-um
 Definition: An inclination to anticipate the best possible outcome.
 Example: Even though I never feed my dog at the dinner table, she
always watches me eat with great optimism.
 Sentences: As he planed his proposal he had optimistic thoughts of a
joyful new marriage, still to find that his wife was cheating on him.
 Indenture
 in-DEN-chur (verb)
 Definition: to bind (as an apprentice)
 Example: My great –grandfather decided to immigrate to Canada
when a wealthy man offered to indenture his as a servant in Ottawa.
 Sentence: Some one offered to indenture him as an assistant for
NASA.